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“I have observed over a long lifetime that mental stability is not all it's cracked up to be.”

“Someone told me once, that he who talks to himself is conversing with a fool. I suppose there's truth in that.”

“...for he had learned from others of their kind that death seemed to bring small comfort from the worrisome sphere of life....”

“We exist within the question of God.”

“Oh God, please, I have to, please, just once more; I have to see her again. He marched onwards, his crippled leg dragging behind; his good leg hauling his exhausted body through the kind of pain he didn’t think existed. He reached out, grasped clumps of hope with bloodied hands, and pulled himself onwards.”

“Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.”